Please! Someone tell me this is a joke!
Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in Catholic schools, say church leaders
These are my kind of "little old ladies".....
Crab-Apple Clash, Birdhouse Ban Pushed Seniors to Take a Stand
Rules at Housing Complex Created Activists; Fighting for Wind Chimes
And Bishop Paul Loverde of the Diocese of Arlington is my kind of Bishop!
Bishop Would Tell Catholic Hospital to Ignore Barack Obama's FOCA Abortion Bill
Loverde doesn't have any Catholic hospitals under his purview, but he commented on what he would do if he did.
****“I would say, ‘Yeah, I'm not going to close the hospital, you're going to arrest me, go right ahead. You'll have to drag me out, go right ahead. I'm not closing this hospital, we will not perform abortions, and you can go take a flying leap,'" he said, according to a CNS News report.
H/T Cavey at the Lair
More shopping ideas:
Kathleen over at The Daily Grotto reminded me about her consulting work with a worthwhile children's book publisher. Hop over - she has some great Christmas specials.
John sent me a link to the Online Benedictine Gift Shop post on his wonderful blog. He has links to a number of different Benedictine sources including Australia and the UK.
"Praise and Worship" Music in Church
by Jeffrey Tucker
****"It is one of the great puzzles to me why people do not find it obvious that drums, electric guitars, and music with pop beats do not belong in Church – certainly not in liturgy but not even in evangelical worship environments. The case for "Contemporary Christian" music in worship so lost on me that I find it difficult to even rationally argue the point – which I freely admit is a failing on my part." read more
****I have found the only rationale the happy-clappy crowd can give you for secular music is always directed inward. It revolves around their feelings or what they want, not around what the church has rightly ordered.
**** It is not a small matter to dissent from church teaching on music, or for that matter on anything having to do with liturgy, nor to look for the "wiggle room" in official documents to get your way.
